Flowbar

Wooden stick meets function.
Flowbar improves the quality of all Pilates exercises.

Core Activation | Stabilization | Coordination

The constant tension from springs adds an element of required stabilization from your body to maintain form during many exercises. This also means that you will often need to activate your core for balance. The need to control them from snapping back into place means greater stimulation and strength through the muscle’s full range of motion, and the pull of the springs reduces your ability to cheat by using momentum.

Springs can feel a little unsteady to use. This just means you need to work doubly hard to maintain your form. By pushing the springs inwards we manage to activate the powerhouse while by pushing them outwards we activate the back muscles and the rotator cuff. These two activations that Flowbar achieves are extremely important for the correct posture and proper execution of the Pilates exercises. This bar can improve the quality of the whole Pilates training. But by doing this, you’re targeting your stabilizing muscles and building core strength, all at the same time.

Ideal for Rehabilitation

Springs have been proven to improve strength, size, and function of muscles in the elderly as well as those undergoing rehabilitation. They can provide very light or heavy resistance which can be used in targeted ways for specific muscles that also protects joints.

Also something very important, the Flowbar can help people who are recovering from a stroke to coordinate the left side of their brain with the right, as the springs work independently on each side.

Safety

Springs have a very big advantage as a tool and that is the progressively changing resistance. This feature makes springs a key component that applies to most sciences, from engineering to fitness. Unlike weight training, the resistance caused by the springs increases as the user pushes them, thus warning the muscles about what is to come.

Training with springs provides similar and sometimes even greater muscle activity as weight training. One major difference is that it involves a lower amount of force on the joints, which means that more stimulus can be provided to the muscles with less chance of injury. This is also good news for anyone with existing injuries or joint pain, because spring training may allow you to continue working out and performing exercises that you can’t with free weights or machines.

Extra motivation

The wooden stick for Pilates is a fitness tool that has been around for many years. The addition of springs to the stick greatly expands the capabilities of this classic Pilates equipment and stimulates the interest of trainees to use it in their workout sessions.

Thanks to Flowbar the exercises are enriched and the possible movements are multiplied. The use of spring resistance offers a broader range of exercise options and may be applicable to a wider demographic of exercisers, especially in a rehab setting.

Spring Training

Springs have been used in fitness centers for many years since Pilates reformer use springs as a means of resistance. Springs as well as resistance bands obey Hooke’s law but a little differently. The more you push them, the more resistance they produce.

But is training with resistance bands the same as training with springs? Yes, and springs are even better because they do not lose their resistance over time unlike resistance bands, but they always exert the exact same resistance even after millions of repetitions. The springs do not cut as can happen with the bands and do not lose their shape.

As a result they have a more linear and progressive resistance compared to the resistance bands. So, unfasten the Flowbar, choose the resistance of the springs you want (hard-medium-light) based on their color (black-red-green), fasten it and feel the difference in your training.